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Building RESTful Web services with Go

By : Naren Yellavula
Book Image

Building RESTful Web services with Go

By: Naren Yellavula

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services and in today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Go, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages a framework like Gin to implement these services. The book starts with a brief introduction to REST API development and how it transformed the modern web. You will learn how to handle routing and authentication of web services along with working with middleware for internal service. The book explains how to use Go frameworks to build RESTful web services and work with MongoDB to create REST API. You will learn how to integrate Postgres SQL and JSON with a Go web service and build a client library in Go for consuming REST API. You will learn how to scale APIs using the microservice architecture and deploy the REST APIs using Nginx as a proxy server. Finally you will learn how to metricize a REST API using an API Gateway. By the end of the book you will be proficient in building RESTful APIs in Go.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Boosting the querying performance with indexing


We all know that while reading a book, indexes are very important. When we try to search for a topic in the book, we first roll our eyes through the index page. If the index is found, then we go to the specific page number for that topic. But there is a drawback here. We are using additional pages for the sake of this indexing. Similarly, MongoDB needs to go through all the documents whenever we query for something. If the document stores indexes for important fields, it can give back data to us quickly. At the same time, we are wasting extra space for indexing.

In the computing field, the B-tree is an important data structure to implement indexing because it can categorize nodes. By traversing that tree, we can find the data we need in fewer steps. We can create an index using the createIndex function provided by MongoDB. Let us take an example of students and their scores in an examination. We will be doing GET operations more frequently with...